Monthly Archives: August 2016

From Daniela of the Research and Degrowth group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Degrowth listed in the top 10 successful movements. Not sure however who writes and reads this blog which includes Syriza together with climate justice and La … Continue reading →

A well written thoughtful article Brett Scott is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money Unlike a battle fought using violence, hegemony is the assertion of power by getting people to believe in it, … Continue reading →

The Xarxa d’Economia Solidària de Catalunya, commonly referred to as “XES”, constitutes essentially the most important community organization for the social and solidarity economy in Catalonia. Operating since 2003 as a non-profit association, it forms a network that connects a … Continue reading →

There are numerous grassroots movements and initiatives worldwide with the ambition to contribute to transformative change towards more sustainable, resilient and just societies. Many of them have a specific vision on the economy and relate to alternative visions of a … Continue reading →

A discussion by Michael McAllum, on Disruptive and Revolutionary Technology, from the PHD thesis, “Making Sense of Rifkin’s Third Industrial Revolution” “Technologies can engender revolutionary effects. Technology that is disruptive at a civilisational scale, occurs when particular technologies (in the … Continue reading →

Richard Swift & I visited Calafou in September 2013 and some of the interviews in his CBC Ideas documentary on degrowth were done there. “One of the most interesting autonomous projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC) is Calafou, … Continue reading →